Photographic-film package.



"H. WYMAN. PHOTOGRAPHIO FILM PACKAGE. APPLICATION-FILED,APB.14, 1914.

1,132,993, a Y Patented Mar.23,1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

6 Patented Mar. as, 1915.

n n u filed April 14, 1914. Serial nasaiase.

A To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Honacn WYMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester, and

State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Photographic-Film Package,

of which the following is a specification. I

to photographic This invention relates films of the fiat type, the film package having an exposure chamber for a package of unexposed films and a safety cover for the films therein, a communicating chamber for the storage of the films after exposure and chamber,

ing of the tail of the plate having thefilm follower springs formed thereof, at its edges: Fig. 5,

light excluding means for said compartments.

The object of my invention is to provide means .to more securely retain the safety cover-in the storage chamber when drawn therein; improved means to retain the edges of the unexposed films, in the expesure in close contact with the edges of the exposure opening and improved light excluding means for the storage chamber, all of which will be hereinafter fully described and more specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown my improvement combined with a fiat type ofpackage sufiicient to enable those skilled in the art to understand the construction and operation thereof.

Referring to the drawing: Figure 1, is 9. Ion 'tudinal section of the flat type package wit my improvements contained therein: Fig. 2, is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, but shows some of the parts in different positions: Fig. '3, is a plan view of the fiat type package with one of the exposed films partially withdrawn through the front openstorage chamber: Fig. 4, is a de- -1 s an end view of Fig. 3, viewing in direction of arrow a, same figure, showing the opening under the back for the reception of the-safety cover tab, also the light excluding member with yielding material on its top and bottom sides, the manipulating tabs being omitted in this view: Fig. 6, is an edge view of Fig. 4, viewing in direction of arrow 6, same figure: Fig. 7, is a front view of the package showing the exposure opening, my improved plate with its follower springs being shown in sitlon, their contacting ends immediately under the flanges ofthe exposure opening.

their operative po- In the accompanying drawing the case 10 of the package may be formed of ahy suitable material as card or paste-board and is provided with an exposure chamber 14 having an opening 11 at its front side, for the exposure of the films contained ,therein, with flanges 11 formed on the case, around the opening for bear against.

The unexposed films 15, contained in the exposure chamber 14- are provided with backings and withdrawing tabs 15, said tabs being used .to withdraw the films through the communicating opening and into'the storage chamber 14, after said films 15 have been exposed.

The edges of the outer film are held in close contact with the flanges 11 of the exposure opening by a series of outwardly extending flat springs 18 bearing against the innermost film of the pack.

The package'is also provided with a stor-' age chamber 14, for the storage of the films after exposure, the partition 16, between said exposure and storage chamber. having a communicating opening at one end, and between the chambers. Said package has, at its frontend, an opening out of the storage chamber 14', through which the manipulating tabs 15 extend after passing through the storage chamber 14.

12 is the back cover of the package and is the edges of the films to provided at its front end with a guide 13 V of said back 12 The guide 13. may be formedof paper or other fiexiblematerial, the outer edges 13 continuing around the inner and outer sides being pressed or secured to the inner side of, the back cover 12 thereby forming an opening 13" through which the safety sheet tab 19 passes. The upward pressure of the light excluding member 17, below the tabs of the films, acts to retain said film tabs and the flexible guide 13 in light excluding contact with the back cover 12. The guide 13 extending around the outer side of the back cover 12 may be of such material as to act as a reinforcing bar for the end of said back cover 12. Said chamber 14 is provided at its front end, with an opening'the width of the chamber 14*. This construction allows a pile fabric, 17 and 17 orother yielding madrawn, by means of the manipulating tab terial. The elasticity of the lower strip 17", 20 into the communicating opening of the. which rests upon the bottom of the pocket, exposure and storage chambers, 14 and 14, acts to move the member 17 bodily upward, thereby eliminating the possibility of light 7 theupper strip1'i acting against and hold-' entering at this point after the removal of 70 ing the manipulating tabs 15 in close conthe package from the camera. I tact with the inner side of the guide 13 and Having thus described my invention, it backing 12, thereby excluding the light from will be evident that many changes and the film storage chamber 142. modifications may be made therein by one 10 18 is a plate lying loosely at the rear of skilled in the art, without departing from 75' the exposure chamber 14. Said plate 18 has the spirit and scope thereof, and I'do not formed thereof, around its edges, a series of wish to be limited to the specific details fiat springs 18 which bear outwardly herein disclosed. a against the backing of the innermost film, I am also aware that heretofore film-backof the series of films 15 inthe exposure ing tabs have been supported near their 80 chamber 14', thereby securing the edges of exit and I donot broadly claim such method, the-first or outer film in close contact with but. p the flanges 11*, immediately above it, which What I claim is prevents the film from becoming displaced 1. A'photographic film package having or buckling during 'the exposure. an exposure chamber for unexposedfilms 5 The sensitized films 15 in the exposure provided with an exposure opening 1n its chamber 14: are provided with an opaque face, and a storage chamber for exposed safety sheet 19. Said sheet acts to, protect films communicating therewith at one end the sensitized films 15 from the light before 'and provided with a tab .exit passage at its being placed in the camera. Said safety opposite end, a series of films located in said 90 sheet is provided with a manipulating tab storage chamber, each of said films being 19 which passes through the storage champrovided with a backing terminating in a ber 14 and is separated. from the tabs of the manipulating tab, said tabs extending film backing by having an independent exit through said storage chamber and the exit 0 between the inner side of the back 12 and passage therefrom, a safety sheet for clos- 95 theguide 13, said tab 19 being used to draw ing the exposure opening of said storage the safety sheet 19 into'the storage chamber chamber, said sheet being provided with a 14: after the package has been properly flexible manipulating tab extending through placed within the camera. The outer porstorage chamber and said tabexit passage;

tion of the tab 19 is then torn off adjacent means located in said tab exit passage to to the guide bar 13, thereby securing the separate said safety sheet tab from said safety sheet against displacement and-elimifilm backing tabs and to hold said safety nating the possibility of light entering the sheet'when drawn into said storage chamber storage chamber 14: during 'the'removal of separated from said film backing tabs and 40 any of the exposed films from'said chamin a flat position against the back of-said ber .149 lhe sensitized films 15 are also storage chamber. provided with backings terminating in ma- 2. A photograhic film package having an h nipulating tabs .15 which extend through exposure chamber for unexposed films rothe storage chambera 14: and the opening atvided with an exposure opening in its ace,

the front end of the package, said tabs 15 and a. storage chamber. for exposed films 11 being used to drawthe films 15 into the communicating therewith at one end and storage chamber 14 after exposure. The providedwith a tab exit passage at its op tabs are then torn off adjacent their exit. .p'osite end, a series of films located in said In my improvement I also provide a sealstorage chamber, each of said films being 9 ing sheet 20 terminating in a manipulating provided with a backing terminating in a 11 tab 20. Said sealing sheet 20 is provided at manipulating tab, said tabs extending its inner end with atransverse strip or bar through said storage chamber and the exit 4 21 of a size to close the communicatingpassage therefrom,a-safety sheet for closing opening, between the exposure chamber 14: the exposure openingof-sald storage chamand the storage chamber 14, when drawn her, said sheet being provided with a flexlble 15 therein. Said strip'21 remains-normally in manipulating tab extending through said a recess formed on the top' of the spring storagechamber andsaid tab exit passage;'

- plate 18 near its edge and under thefilm a plate lying loosely in the rearof the e xfollower springs 18 at the rounded end of posure chamber and havingpfcrmedv in uts the partition 16, see Fig. 1, the sealing sheet edges series of outwardly extending flat passing around the rounded end of the parfilm follower springs, said springs acting tition 16under the tabsof the films. in direct contact with the inner film backing .After the series of films 15 have been exto hold the outer film in close contact with posed and drawn within the storage chamthe flanges of the exposureopening.

her 14;, the transverse strip or bar 21-is 3, A. photographic "package having 1 an ex osure chamber for unexposed films provi ed with an exposure opening in its face, and a storage chamber for exposed films communicating therewith at one end and provided with a tab exit passage at its opposite end, a series of films located in said storage chamber, each of said films be.- ing provi ed with a backing terminatin in a manipulating tab, said tabs exten ing through said storage chamber and' the exit passage therefrom, a safety sheet for closing the exposure opening of said storage chamber, said sheet being provided with a flexible manipulating tab extending through said storage chamber and said tab exit passage; a movable transverse light excluding member provided at its top and bottom sides with resilient material, said member actingagainst the .under side of the manipulatin tab, through the resiliency of the material on its sides, thereby retaining said tabs in close contact with each other under the inner side of the package back or guide, substantially as shown and described.

4. A photographic film package having an ex osure chamber for unexposed films, provi ed with an exposure opening in its face, and a storage chamber for exposed films communicating therewith at one end and provided with a tab exit passage at its opposite end, a series of films located in sald storage chamber, each of said. films being:

manipulating tab extending through said storage chamber and said tab exit passage: a lig the exposure chamber a having connected thereto a manipulating tab, normall in a recess above the spring plate and un er the springs cut from the plate, said tab passing through the storage chamber and the tab exit from said stora e chamber, said tab being used to draw t e light excluding bar within the communicating opening between the exposure and storage chambers after the series of films have been drawn within the storage chamber afterex osure, thereby excluding the light at this oint when the package is removed from t e camera, substantially as shown and described.

In testimon whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in t e presence of two" subscribing witnesses. I

HORA'CE WYMAN.

Witnesses:

ERNEST R. Lmwmmnr, JOHN B. Sm;

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